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This image taken from video shows a Naviera Armas ferry after hitting the breakwater at Puerta de la Luz, Gran Canaria, Spain on Friday, April 21, 2017. Thirteen ferry passengers were injured when the boat slammed into a breakwater in a port on the Canary Islands, Spanish authorities said Saturday. Manolo Vidal, spokesman for Naviera Armas, the company that owns the ferry, says that a "loss of electrical power" caused the accident as the boat was leaving the Puerta de la Luz on the island of Gran Canaria Friday night. (EMERGCAN via AP)
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This image taken from video shows a Naviera Armas ferry heading towards the breakwater at Puerta de la Luz, Gran Canaria, Spain on Friday, April 21, 2017. Thirteen ferry passengers were injured when the boat slammed into a breakwater in a port on the Canary Islands, Spanish authorities said Saturday. Manolo Vidal, spokesman for Naviera Armas, the company that owns the ferry, says that a "loss of electrical power" caused the accident as the boat was leaving the Puerta de la Luz on the island of Gran Canaria Friday night. (EMERGCAN via AP)
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This image taken from video shows a Naviera Armas ferry hitting the breakwater at Puerta de la Luz, Gran Canaria, Spain on Friday, April 21, 2017. Thirteen ferry passengers were injured when the boat slammed into a breakwater in a port on the Canary Islands, Spanish authorities said Saturday. Manolo Vidal, spokesman for Naviera Armas, the company that owns the ferry, says that a "loss of electrical power" caused the accident as the boat was leaving the Puerta de la Luz on the island of Gran Canaria Friday night. (EMERGCAN via AP)
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FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, a medical worker sprays people being discharged from the Island Clinic Ebola treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia. The trauma of the world’s deadliest Ebola outbreak, which killed more than 11,300, has left many survivors fighting a mental health battle to focus on the present, after witnessing drawn-out deaths and whole communities torn apart. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
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In this photo taken Saturday, April 1, 2017, Patrick Fallah, president of the National Ebola Survivors Network of Liberia, sits inside his house in Monrovia, Liberia. The trauma of the world’s deadliest Ebola outbreak, which killed more than 11,300, has left many survivors fighting a mental health battle to focus on the present, after witnessing drawn-out deaths and whole communities torn apart. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh)
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Police survey the scene at a railroad crossing where a woman was struck by a locomotive in Beaverton, Ore., Thursday, April 20, 2017. An Oregon woman who was distracted by her cellphone is hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after being struck by the freight train in the Portland, Ore., suburb. (Diana Powe via AP)
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A freight train engine is visible at the scene at a railroad crossing where a woman was struck by the locomotive in Beaverton, Ore., Thursday, April 20, 2017. An Oregon woman who was distracted by her cellphone is hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after being struck by the freight train in the Portland, Ore., suburb. (Diana Powe via AP)
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People stand outside their office building in the Financial District after a power outage Friday, April 21, 2017, in San Francisco. A power outage struck a wide area of San Francisco on Friday, blacking out about 90,000 utility customers, snarling traffic as intersection signals went dark and stopping the famed cable cars for a time. Pacific Gas & Electric crews were assessing the problem and there was no immediate estimate for restoration of electricity. (AP Photo/Janie Har)
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Cable Cars sit idle on California Street during a power outage in San Francisco, Friday, April 21, 2017. A power outage struck a wide area of San Francisco on Friday, blacking out about 90,000 utility customers, snarling traffic as intersection signals went dark and stopping the famed cable cars for a time. Pacific Gas & Electric crews were assessing the problem and there was no immediate estimate for restoration of electricity. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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A sign is displayed on the window of Bamboo Asia restaurant during a power outage in San Francisco, Friday, April 21, 2017. A power outage struck a wide area of San Francisco on Friday, blacking out about 90,000 utility customers, snarling traffic as intersection signals went dark and stopping the famed cable cars for a time. Pacific Gas & Electric crews were assessing the problem and there was no immediate estimate for restoration of electricity. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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Motorists and pedestrians cross an intersection during a power outage in San Francisco, Friday, April 21, 2017. A power outage struck a wide area of San Francisco on Friday, blacking out about 90,000 utility customers, snarling traffic as intersection signals went dark and stopping the famed cable cars for a time. Pacific Gas & Electric crews were assessing the problem. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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A woman walks under blacked out traffic lights during a power outage in San Francisco, Friday, April 21, 2017. A power outage struck a wide area of San Francisco on Friday, blacking out about 90,000 utility customers, snarling traffic as intersection signals went dark and stopping the famed cable cars for a time. Pacific Gas & Electric crews were assessing the problem. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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A San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency officer directs traffic during a power outage in San Francisco, Friday, April 21, 2017. A power outage struck a wide area of San Francisco on Friday, blacking out about 90,000 utility customers, snarling traffic as intersection signals went dark and stopping the famed cable cars for a time. Pacific Gas & Electric crews were assessing the problem and there was no immediate estimate for restoration of electricity. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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A fire truck at top left and other traffic try to make their way around a pair of idled cablecars on California Street after a large power outage Friday, April 21, 2017, in San Francisco. Pacific Gas & Electric says about 90,000 customers have been affected by the outage. The outage includes the Financial District and other areas. One downtown commuter rail station has been shut down. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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In this undated photo provided by the European Space Agency, ESA, analysts at work in the space debris facility located at ESA's ESOC mission control centre, Darmstadt, Germany. Decades' worth of man-made junk is cluttering up Earth's orbit, posing a threat to spaceflight and the satellites we rely on for weather reports, air travel and global communications. More than 750,000 fragments larger than a centimeter are already thought to orbit Earth, and each one could badly damage or even destroy a satellite. (Roberto Palmari/ESA via AP)
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FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, file photo, actress Carrie Fisher attends a special screening of, "Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds," at Alice Tully Hall in New York. The creators of Amazon's "Catastrophe," which stars Fisher in one of her final roles, said news of her death Dec. 27, 2016, was "utterly shocking." "We had no idea. I don't think she had any idea," said series star and co-creator Rob Delaney of possible warning signs or health concerns for the 60-year-old actress. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)
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The car belonging to an attacker is towed away from the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, France, after a fatal shooting in which a police officer was killed along with the attacker, Friday, April 21, 2017. An attacker with an automatic weapon opened fire on police on Paris' iconic Champs-Elysees Thursday night, killing one officer and seriously wounding two others before police shot and killed him. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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Texas Rangers relief pitcher Dario Alvarez celebrates getting Kansas City Royals' Alex Gordon to ground out in the 13th inning of a baseball game in Arlington, Texas, Thursday, April 20, 2017. The Rangers won 1-0. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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In this Tuesday, April 11, 2017 photo, taxis await ferry passengers arriving in New Shoreham, R.I. on Block Island. Two taxis operate on the island all year, but more than 30 are licensed to operate during the summer tourist season. (AP Photo/Matt O'Brien)
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A Seattle police officer, right, puts an arm around the wife of another officer as they walk near the emergency entrance while helping provide food and other supplies to other officers at Harborview Medical Center, Thursday, April 20, 2017, in Seattle. Several officers were shot while responding to a robbery in Saattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
